Five Republican members of Congress from New York sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Wednesday, demanding transparency about his administration’s “secrecy” involving migrant relocation operations and expressing outrage that these operations have now expanded into rural upstate New York communities.
“We write following reports that your administration is actively settling migrants in Upstate New York communities,” the letter opened, referencing a New York Post report from earlier in the month about 35 Colombian migrants who recently showed up in Jamestown, a small town with a population of 28,393 that’s located 285 miles northwest of New York City.
In the letter, the lawmakers expressed “deep concern that the influx of large numbers of migrants will overwhelm the local services and infrastructure, as they have done in border communities across the southern United States.”…}